ἥρωος (heroos)

ἥρωος is an Ancient Greek form of ἥρως, meaning “hero”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.7: … ους ἀπέστη. ἐπανελθὼν δὲ εἰς Ἀθήνας διέτριβεν ἐν Ἀκαδημείᾳ. τὸ δʼ ἐστὶ γυμνάσιον προάστειον ἀλσῶδες ἀπό τινος ἥρωος ὀνομασθὲν Ἑκαδήμου, καθὰ καὶ Εὔπολις ἐν Ἀστρατεύτοις φησίν· ἐν εὐσκίοις δρόμοισιν Ἑκαδήμου θεοῦ. ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ Τ …

Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.8.4: τῶν δὲ ῥυθμῶν ὁ μὲν ἡρῷος σεμνῆς ἀλλʼ οὐ λεκτικῆς ἁρμονίας δεόμενος, ὁ δʼ ἴαμβος αὐτή ἐστιν ἡ λέξις ἡ τῶν πολλῶν (διὸ μάλιστα πάντων τῶ …

Strabo, Geography 6.3.2: … ς ἀπὸ Ἰάπυγος, ὃν ἐκ Κρήσσης γυναικὸς Δαιδάλῳ γενέσθαι φασὶ καὶ ἡγήσασθαι τῶν Κρητῶν· Τάραντα δʼ ὠνόμασαν ἀπὸ ἥρωός τινος τὴν πόλιν.

All forms of ἥρως (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.